Stripling Warrior

The 2000 Stripling Warriors ". . . were exceedingly valiant for courage. . . Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him. . . yea they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them. . . We do not doubt our mothers knew it." The Book of Mormon (Alma 53-56) tells us how, after a terrible battle against the Lamanites, Helaman fearfully counted his stripling sons. Although all were wounded, to his astonishment there was "not one soul of them who did perish. . . ."